How many people today grab a takeaway coffee cup from the local cafe to drink on the go? We don’t know, but the number must be enormous.. Most every one of the above have a plastic top that will last 100s of years. Some cafes still use plastic cups that last a similar time. Is 10 minutes of coffee worth 100s of years of trash?
These items can be seen littering our gutters and on our streets all over the place. If they were all cardboard, they would still be littered, but they would, at least, be gone in a short time.
They do not need to be made of plastic.
On the way home from the gym last week, a distance of about 1 km (1/2 mile), I counted the items of plastic litter on the curb as I walked. In that short distance I counted 63 pieces of plastic litter. Plastic drink bottles, bottle tops, candy wrappers, plastic film, polystyrene fragments etc. That seemed to be a lot to me. I guess it is a generational thing. Our parents would have been horrified to see that amount, whereas it seems to go unnoticed by our youth of today. In another 20 years how many pieces will there be on this stretch, -- 200? What will today’s youth think of that new amount then when they are older? Will their children be so readily accepting of a higher amount of litter? Flexible PrimaPak targets rigid container niche – USA
Posted on December 1, 2012 by DrRossH in BioPlasticsPlastics News – Flexible PrimaPak targets rigid container niche.
“This is practical sustainability,” said Forowycz. “There is a lower manufacturing footprint and manufacturing costs are significantly reduced.” Warehouse space, fuel use and greenhouse gases are also reduced and the packaging requires fewer trucks for shipping, he said.
By whose definition does this define sustainability? Sustainable means we can use a product at a certain rate and never run out of it and not impact our environment. There is nothing in these products that qualify as sustainable.
What this gentleman is referring to is lower manufacturing costs for the company. A benefit for them only being hidden behind a claimed ‘sustainable benefit’ to the consumer. It is nothing to do with the environment at all. Just because a PET product is made from plants rather than fossil fuel, does not mean it is sustainable. It could be less sustainable actually as we could run out of arable land. This PET product has no benefit for the environment on its disposal side at all. It is PET and it is just a bad as fossil based PET when it comes to disposal issues.
This greenwashing by manufacturers is highly unethical and big corporations should act a lot more responsible.
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